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The Taro of the sacred Book of Enoch, or Rota, is prefaced, moreover, with this
explanation:
The antiquity of this book is lost in the night of time. It is of Indian origin,
and goes back to an epoch long before Moses . . . It is written upon
detached leaves, which at the first were of fine gold and precious
metals . . . It is symbolical, and its combinations adapt themselves to all
the wonders of the Spirit. Altered by its passage across the Ages, it is
nevertheless preserved - thanks to the ignorance of the curious - in its
types and its most important primitive figures.
This is the Rota of Enoch, now called Taro of Enoch, to which de Mirville alludes, as
we saw, as the means used for “evil Magic.” the (Page 94) “metallic plates [or leaves]
escaped from destruction during the Deluge” and which are attributed by him to Cain.
They have escaped the Deluge for the simple reason that this Flood was not
“Universal.” And it is said to be “of Indian origin,” because its origin is with the Indian
Aryans of the first Sub-Race of the Fifth Root-Race, before the final destruction of the
last stronghold of Atlantis. But, if it originated with the forefathers of the primitive
Hindus, it was not in India that it was first used. Its origin is still more ancient and
must be traced beyond and into the Himaleh, [ Pockocke, may be, was not altogether
wrong in deriving the German Heaven, Himmel, from Himalaya; nor can it be denied
that it is the Hindu Kailasa (Heaven) that is the father of the Greek Heaven (Koilon),
and of the Latin Coelum.] the Snowy Range. It was born in that mysterious locality
which no one is able to locate, and which is the despair of both Geographers and
Christian Theologians - the regions in which the Brahman places his Kailasa, the
Mount Sumeru, and the Pârvatî Pamîr, transformed by the Greeks into Paropamisus.
Round this locality, which still exists, the traditions of the Garden of Eden were built.
From these regions the Greeks obtained their Parnassus [ See Pockocke's India in
Greece, and his derivation of Mount Parnassus from Parnasa, the leaf and branch
huts of the Hindu ascetics, half shrine and half habitation. “Part of the Par-o-Pamisus
(the hill of Bamian), is called Parnassus. “These mountains are called Devanica,
because they are so full of Devas of Gods, called “Gods of the Earth:” Bhu Devas.
They lived, according to the Puranas, in bowers or huts, called Parnasas, because
they were made of leaves; (Parnas),” p.302.] and thence proceeded most of the
biblical personages, some of them in their day men, some demigods and heroes,
some - though very few - myths, the astronomical double of the former. Abram was
one of them - a Chaldaean Brâhman, [ Rawlinson is justly very confident of an Aryan
and Vedic influence on the early mythology and history of Babylon and Chaldea.]
says the legend, transformed later, after he had repudiated his Gods and left his Ur
(pur, “town”) in Chaldaea, into A-brahms [ This is a Secret Doctrine affirmation, and
may or may not be accepted. Only Abrahm, Isaac and Judah resemble terribly the
Hindu Brahmâ, Ikshvâku and Yadu.] (or A-braham ”no-brâhman” who emigrated.
Abram becoming the “father of many nations” is thus explained. The student of
Occultism has to bear in mind that every God and hero in ancient Pantheons (that of
the Bible included), has three biographies in the narrative, so to say, running parallel
with each other and each connected with one of the aspects of the hero - historical,
astronomical and perfectly mythical, the last serving to connect the other two together
and smooth away the asperities and discordancies in the narrative, and gathering
into one or more symbols the verities of the first two. Localities are made to
correspond with astronomical and even with psychic events.
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